Akamai Adds Two Industry-Renowned Engineers to R&D Team.CAMBRIDGE, MA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1999-- Company welcomes Peter Danzig as Vice President of Technology and Chuck Neerdaels as Director of Engineering Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , which operates a global Internet content delivery service that speeds up Web performance, announced today two appointments to its Research & Development team. Joining Akamai is Peter Danzig as Vice President of Technology, and Chuck Neerdaels as Director of Engineering. Both individuals bring years of experience in the areas of Internet networking technology. Peter most recently served at Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything where he was a key architect of Internet products and a contributor to the advancement of the NetCache appliances. Chuck joins Akamai from Inktomi where he was Development Manager for Inktomi's Traffic Server. "We're excited to welcome aboard two very talented individuals whose engineering expertise has been critical to the technological advancements of the Internet," said George Conrades, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Akamai. "Their efforts to improving the Web's infrastructure has enabled many of today's leading businesses to experience a more robust Internet. Their contributions and industry leadership will be of extraordinary value to extending Akamai's technology for Internet content delivery." Prior to joining Akamai, Peter Danzig collaborated on the development of Network Appliance's NetCache, developing the product to be a leading solution for intelligently distributing frequently viewed Web content. His distinguished career also includes helping to found the Internet Middleware Corporation in 1995. Aimed at building Web caching solutions, Internet Middleware was acquired by Network Appliance in March of 1997. Peter's career extends into academia including his appointment in 1990 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . He received teaching awards for his creation of an undergraduate class in simulation techniques, and for modernizing his laboratory class in computer networks and distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. . Peter received his B.S. in Applied Physics in 1982 from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). Davis, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley. Chuck Neerdaels brings to Akamai extensive knowledge of today's leading proxy servers Also called a "proxy," it is a computer system or router that breaks the connection between sender and receiver. Functioning as a relay between client and server, proxy servers are used to help prevent an attacker from invading the private network. and the requirements necessary for building network-based services. Having served as Inktomi's Development Manager for the company's Traffic Server, his responsibilities included management of the engineering staff, as well as technical and pre-sales support. He also helped define the strategic direction of the product and partnerships. Before joining Inktomi in December 1997, Chuck served as a lead engineer at Netscape, and was responsible for managing the Netscape Proxy server. He joined Netscape in October 1995. Chuck received his B.A.E.M. in Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. in Minneapolis. Akamai presents the second opportunity for which the two engineers will work together. Under the auspices of the federally-funded Harvest Information Discovery System, or `Harvest Project,' Peter Danzig and Chuck Neerdaels collaborated at the University of Southern California on one of the earliest designs for caching Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. traffic. Peter led the Harvest Web cache (1) A computer system in a network that keeps copies of the most-recently requested Web pages in memory or on disk in order to speed up retrieval. If the next page requested has already been stored in the cache, it is retrieved locally rather than from the Internet. and helped design the Harvest indexer projects from 1992-1995. Peter Danzig's start date at Akamai is effective beginning September 20, 1999. Chuck Neerdaels' appointment is effectively immediately. They will both work out of Akamai's new West Coast facilities opening in the 4th quarter of 1999 (see the separate announcement dated Sep. 15 announcing the opening of Akamai's West Coast facilities.) About Akamai Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . Akamai provides a global Internet content delivery service that improves Web site speed and reliability and protects against Web site crashes due to demand overloads. Currently, Akamai has 900 servers deployed in 15 countries across 25 telecommunications networks, providing Akamai's customers with guaranteed global Internet content delivery service. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. |
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